In recent years it has been stated that not all regions of the European Union with a GDP per capita below the European average are converging. This is the main conclusion of the recently published paper by Diemer, Iammarino, Rodríguez-Pose and Storper (2022). Thus, long-term economic stagnation...

The year 2022 was featured by Russia's invasion of Ukraine, by the resurgence of COVID in China, by the fight against inflation and by the emergence of geo-political-economic factors among which uncertainty, complexity and the combination of new challenges such as actions derived from...

Globalization is modifying traditional paradigms on the articulation of ports with the territory. Port studies focused from functionalist perspectives (in which the units of analysis were the port spaces themselves) have given way to systemic approaches that place ports in a new position, within...

The world economic situation entails a review of the economic integration processes and, subsequently, a return to national economies that were based on a rebound in domestic demand (that is, very supportive of orthodox Keynesianism), inspired by the commitment to income redistribution policies,...

In today's world, geopolitics is leading the decisions, generating opportunities in a more inclusive globalization for many countries, while at the same time giving rise to a more fragmented economy, with fewer common rules of the game. Therefore, we are witnessing a series of overlapping crises...

In 2023, like most of the economies in its environment, the Galician economy experienced a significant slowdown in its growth rate. Thus, Galician GDP grew by 1.8%, seven-tenths less than in Spain, this growth being not only higher than the European average and the Eurozone but also higher than...

The connectivity index reveals the level of accessibility that a country / port has in relation to transport networks. It is measured through the maritime connections it has and is a basic tool to know the levels of trade facilitation and the degrees of global insertion. In the Galician ports,...

After the slowdown in the rate of GDP growth in 2019, the health crisis caused by COVID and the measures subsequently approved to contain its expansion led to a contraction of Galician economic activity of 8.9% - two points lower than the state measure (11%). Throughout the year, Galicia...

This is a crisis like no other. The global economic outlook continues to be uncertain, more than a year after the declaration of the pandemic. Mutations of the virus, deaths and levels of contagion remain a cause for concern, although increases in vaccination rates, technical advances and...